Re: [Linux-ia64] Pre-emption patch for IA-64

David Mosberger
2003-03-14T22:07:42Z

>>>>> On Sat, 15 Mar 2003 08:57:55 +1100, Peter Chubb <peter@chubb.wattle.id.au> said:

Peter> On a dual McKinley prototype machine I was able to get
Peter> lockups with preempt under heavy I/O and cpu load (e.g., make
Peter> -j4 in glibc). I'm waiting for production model McKinleys
Peter> SMP to retry, as I couldn't reproduce the problem on
Peter> production-model Itanium 1, and there were no symptoms that I
Peter> could debug.

Do you know what on the zx1-based machines you can trigger INIT via
the BMC? That's quite handy when the kernel locks up (you can dump
the collected state at the next boot).

--david